Chpt.36 Sect.2 Flashcards
Before 1870
Europe few holdings in Africa
Mostly seaports + trading stations along coast
Exceptions: British Cape Colony + Algeria
Why Europeans stayed along coast at first
Safer from tropical diseases + other dangers
Little known about interior
1840/David Livingstone
Scottish medical missionary
Converted ppl to Christianity in Africa
Worked to end Arab trade if enslaved Africans
Explored interior
Wrote about journeys in letters broadcasted in GB and US
Stooped suddenly
Henry Stanley
Sent to investigate by NY newspaper
2 yrs later found in Arab village on shores of Lake Tanganyika
Became explorer
1874-1889/Stanley
Explored Congo
Wrote about it
1879/King Leopoldo II of Belgium/Stanley
Hired to obtain land
Signed many treaties w/ chiefs
Worked cause could not understand English
Leopold
Greedy Violent Ppl shot if resisting Missionaries and Europeans protested so turned Congo over to gov Gov abolished forced labour
1869/Suez Canal
Northern Africa Built by Egyptians Payed for w/ French funds Connected Mediterranean to Red seas Shorter all-water route to India and Far East
1875/Suez Canal
Egyptian ruler sold shares to GB
GB and France took over Egypt’s finances
Egyptians angry
18882/Egyptians/British
Egyptians rebelled
British troops moved in
Egypt become British protectorate
Country under control and protection of large, stronger nation
Protectorate
Dutch farmers in South Africa
Boers
Boers/1836/Cape Colony
Disliked British rule
Didn’t want to speak English
Mad about abolishment of enslavement
Transvaal + Orange Free State
Independent states set up by Boers in grasslands of interior
Late 1800s/Boer states
Gold and diamonds discovered
Ppl came until Boers eventually outnumbered
Didn’t allow newcomers (British) to vote even though latent heavy taxes